Je Voudrais Pas Crever

I would not like to die, a poem by a young man who soon knows himself condemned, gives his title to a collection of twenty-three poems published after the death of Boris Vian (1920-1959), and whose 1962 edition marked, with some novels and new ones, the beginning of his posthumous glory. Was it not a sort of "chanson of nothingness"?When Noël Arnaud offered in turn the 1972 edition, he attached some letters from Vian to the College of Pataphysics, the institution for which he senthousiasma, a passion that came after so many others and which had burned his life, such as love and friendship, jazz, writing, freedom...